Sunday 26 August 2012

GOD’S LOVE FOR US


A mothers love is the perfect example for us to see how much God loves us, a mother makes sure their child/children are clothed, protected, happy and well fed, if a child cry a mother wipes off the tears, the same with God Almighty, God wipes our tears when we cry, He clothes us, feed us and makes sure we are protected, the love God has for us is amazing and the devil wants us not to see that.
From day one when we were born, God Almighty has been there with us, loving us, caring, and wiping our tears gently off our faces, even though our parents might had passed difficult situations, God gave them strength for our sakes as a sign that He is with us, loves us. God always offers us protection, that’s why when we face difficult situations we always win because the protection God offers us is mightier that a sword.
God is always with us even when we are sad, He is wiping our tears everyday off our eyes, He is our Father, He cares and loves us so much and it pains Him to see us sad because He created us in His own image, He knows our feelings when we are hurt, when tears rolls down our cheeks that affects Him because we are His creation and as our Father, God wants us always to be happy, just as a mother wants to see her child happy.
Often we think God does not love us, we think He is far from us, that’s not true, every hour, day, minute and second, God is there!! We should not let the devil play tricks with our minds; God Almighty is the most perfect Father we can run to for protection and love. A mother gets sad when her child is sad and when things are not well for her child, same as GOD!
Just like we love our parents and mothers, we should love God with all our hearts as God loves us more than our parents, the love God has for is so great, no matter what you might go through, through it all, the greatest parent and Father, God Almighty will never leave nor abandon you, no mother will abandon her child because that’s her creation and image, God will never abandon us, we are His creation and image, God our Father loves us.
If you want to see how big and marvellous the love of God is, look at a mothers love for her child, that is the way God Almighty Loves us and even more, never doubt God’s love for you. To God be The Glory

By Teboho Masakala

REMEMBER THE LORD YOUR GOD IN THE DAYS OF YOUR YOUTH.


As a young person, it is important that you spend your youth days wisely serving God and using your youth to spread the word of God, today the youth indulge in a lot of bad things and later in their lives they going to regret, the bible tells us to remember God during the days of our youth (Ecclesiastes 12 1-7).
Remember the Lord your God in the days of your youth, as a young person, don’t be fascinated by all these perishing materialistic things of this world, they entice us as young people so much that we forget about God as young people and as we grow up, later in life we are going to regret for not remembering God during the days of our youth.
Many aged people who found God Almighty as old people regret why they didn’t find God during the days of their youth and wish they could go back and serve God while they had the youthly energy, but because of their age, they cant fully because some have really aged and wish if only they could turn back the hands of time.
As a young person and a youth, use your time to serve God, worship Him, remember Him as a young person so that when you are no longer a youth, you can glance back with happiness, joy and great pleasure knowing you have served God faithfully!! Some of our youth have ended up in graves in the name and search for fun, some are buried every week and God Almighty doesn’t want that! As a youth do not be enticed by this world.
Do not be enticed by sweet things of this world as the end to all of it all wont be good to you, use your youth wisely, serving God, being in the shadow of His wing, spend time on the bible, tell people about God as a young person, do not be even ashamed when other young people says all kinds of bad things or accuse you saying you trying to be Holier than Thou, know that God Almighty, your God is with you and as a youth, He is very ecstatic that you are remembering Him in the days of your youth.
As a youth, listen to your parents when they advice you to live for God and give your life to Christ because after you give your life to Christ as a young person, God will protect you, anoint you and bless you and no weapon formed against you shall prosper, remember the Lord Your God during the days of your youth. To God be the Glory

By Teboho Masakala

STOP COMPLAINING AND START THANKING GOD


We live a world full of complains, we complain about almost everything, let us stop worrying and complaining and start appreciating what God has blessed us with, God has given life to us and want us to stop complaining and start appreciating all He has done for us.
Thank God for the life He gave you as some has lost it in accidents, murders, sicknesses and are in graves and wished they were alive, thank God for giving you food and stop complaining about the little food you get as some don’t have anything to eat and would be happy even to get two slices of bread as they don’t know where their lunch, breakfast and supper would come from.
Stop worrying about wearing cheap shoes as there are many who don’t have them and walk barefoot everyday and during winter, it is a struggle as the cold penetrates through their feet up to the whole body and they would love to have those shoes you call cheap. Stop complaining and start thanking God for giving you your parents as the are a lot of children who don’t have parents as some were killed, sick and some lying in hospitals, while others wish their parents were with them to comfort them during hardships of life, others never felt the love of their parents.
Stop complain about the work you do or the little money you earning and thank God for giving you a job as there are a lot of unemployed people who would appreciate the little money you complain about and work you do just to put bread on the table, feed their children and take them to school, they would use the opportunity fully if given a chance, yes the very thing you complain about they would use it to change their lives and better it.
Stop complaining about how hard school is or how many times you failed at school as the are those who never went to school and don’t know the smell of chalk or the size of a school chair or the feeling of being taught, some grew up in farms and were disadvantaged because of their situations they previously faced.
Stop complaining about the hardships you are facing and thank God that He is with you in the hardship you are in and preparing you for something big that will bring glory to Him and make it a spiritual eye opener to you so that you can praise God. Stop complaining and start praising God. To God be the Glory.

By Teboho Masakala

Monday 20 August 2012

Faith



Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see, this is what the ancients were commanded for, by faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that  what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice that Cain did, by faith he was commended as a righteous man when God spoke well of his offerings and by faith he still speaks even though he is death. By faith Enoch was taken from this life so that he did not experience death, he could not be found because God had taken him away for before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

And without faith it is impossible to please God because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him. By faith Noah when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family , by his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

By faith Abraham when called to go to a place he would  later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went even though he did not know where he was going, by faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country, he lived in tents as did Isaac and Jacob who were heirs with him of the same promise for he was looking forward to the city with foundations whose architect and builder was God.

Never lose faith, it is impossible to please God Almighty without it, Jesus believed in God and preached about faith, believe in God with out doubting anything and He is faithful all the time, God is able to do just what He said he will do, He is going to fulfil any promise to you, don’t give up on God because he wont give up on you. God is faithful so have faith in God. To God be The Glory.

By Teboho Masakala

Be Holy


Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be se-controlled, set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus is revealed, as obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance but just as He who called you is holy, be holy in all you do for it is written: be holy because I am holy.

Since  you call on a Father who judges each man’s work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear for you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect, He was chosen before the creation of the world but was revealed in these last times for your sake, through him you believe in God who raised him from the dead and glorified him so your faith and hope are in God.

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply from the heart for you have been born again not of perishable seed but of imperishable through the living and enduring word of God for all men are like grass and all their glory is like the flowers of the field, the grass withers and the flowers fall but the word of the Lord stands forever and this is the word that was preached to you.

Therefore rid yourself of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy and slander of every kind, like new born babies, crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your salvation now that you tasted that the lord is good. To God be the Glory

By Teboho Masakala 

PRAY AT ALL TIMES


The situations that we tend to find ourselves on should not let us down, we need to know that through it all and all times we need to pray, when we wake up in the morning, the first thing we need to do is to close our eyes and thank God for blessing us with the opportunity to see another day.
We use transport to get us to work, whether be it our cars or public transport, upon our destination, we need to thank God for keeping us safe along the way, for preventing possible accidents that could have happened without our knowledge, we need to pray at all times. Yes even you who has been looking for a job for so long now must never give up on praying, yes you should continue praying and God is faithful and will never let you down.

When you happy or sad pray, pray at all times and not when you happy only, even when you see that you are about to face death in the eye, you need to pray, prayer keeps us alive, there are those who are in hospitals who cannot pray for themselves and needs us to pray for them, if we cease praying for them, their lives might be affected as our prayers are keeping them alive, even us who are alive and healthy, the are some people out there praying for our well being, praying for us to be alive and not to be harmed, why cant we do the same and pray also for those who needs us?.

When life seems hard for you or you don’t see a point of being alive, you need not despair, pray!! Prayer is communicating and talking to God Almighty, no matter the persecutions we pass or the hatred we face, we must not stop praying, during the lunch hour time at work you need to use it to thank God for keeping you safe until that far as we don’t know how the day will unfolds but God knows that, the gift of life is a very beautiful gift and we need to show God Almighty we appreciate it by thanking Him through prayer all the time.

Without prayer we are nothing, the Holy Survivors gospel group has a song named o mamele thapelo (listen to prayer). God is waiting to hear our prayers and answer them. To God Be The Glory.

By Teboho Masakala

MAKE TIME TO READ THE BIBLE


The Bible is a holy book containing the word of God, it is Holy, through the Bible we get help, when we are down, sad or facing hardships, we know where we ca run to, it is important that you child of God spent time on the word of God.

The word of God has an answer to all our problems, it is vital that we know the scriptures, we can defeat the devil through the knowledge of the bible, when tempting Jesus Christ, the devil quoted from the bible and told Jesus to throw Himself down as it is written that He will command his Angels concerning Jesus and they will lift Him up in their hands so that no foot of Jesus will strike a stone (Matthew 4:6-7). This shows the devil knows the Bible and if we know it, we can defeat him as Jesus replied back and said to Him “It is also written, do not put the Lord your God to the test”.

It very important we give ourselves time to study the word of God, meditate upon it and know it by heart, we spend so much time on our cellphones but not with the Bible!!, let us make the Bible our friend, it powerful, it rebukes, correct and gives life. Let us fill our minds with the knowledge of scripture.
We often fill our minds with things that brings us stress, depression and worry and in the end we up sick while with the word of God, we are empowered and can stand up to the devil and answer using the scripture. God is faithful to His word. The word of God is the helmet of salvation and sword of the Spirit (Ephesians 6:17).

The Bible teaches us how to conduct ourselves, live holy clean lives and to obey God at all times, if we don’t have the knowledge of the scriptures (the Bible) we will be tossed by everything and wont know how to defend ourselves.

Give yourself time and read the Bible, it is the holy book of God, it is our comforter when we cry, it has everything we need and an answers to our lives. To God be the Glory

By Teboho Masakala

Doing what is Good


Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceful and considerate and to show true humility towards all men. At one time we were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures, we lived in malice and envy being hated and hating another one, but when the kindness and love of God our Saviour appeared he saved us not because of righteous things we have done but because of his mercy.

He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Saviour so that having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. This is a trust worthy saying and I want you to stress these things so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good, these things are excellent and profitable for everyone but avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments and quarrels about the law because these are unprofitable and useless.

Warn a divisive person once and then warn him a second time and after that have nothing to do with him, you may be sure that such a man is warped and sinful, he is self-condemned. Our people must learn to do what is good in order that they may provide for daily necessities and do not live un-productive lives. Titus chapter 3,1-11 and 14. To God be The Glory.

By Teboho Masakala